Literacy Specialist, Alpha

Job Overview

• $120,000 per year, paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• Full‑time on‑site at one Alpha campus (Beverly Hills, La Jolla, Lake Forest, Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, South Bay, Greenwich, Boca Raton, Miami Beach, Chicago, Boston, Charlotte, or New York City – relocation assistance available)
• 40 hours per week, 100% direct classroom time with K‑2 students

Your structured‑literacy credential – whether Orton‑Gillingham, LETRS, Wilson, IMSE, or a Master’s in reading instruction – has opened the door to every K‑2 reading position you've pursued. In most, it also defined the limit: you delivered someone else’s curriculum and documented results. Here that credential marks the beginning.

Alpha has redesigned traditional instruction from the ground up. Students advance through academic content independently using AI‑adaptive applications. There are no lectures, textbooks, or pacing calendars. Your position represents the one area where a human specialist cannot be replaced. You will build 20‑minute small‑group workshops based on live app data; sessions are intentionally brief, because targeted instruction outperforms duration. You will also lead motivation sessions that ensure 100% of your students meet weekly app targets through Alpha’s motivational framework (school currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate gamification).

When you catch a student’s miscue during a session, you identify the phonemic weakness and revise the next day’s workshop before leaving campus. That is the expectation.

Families enrolling at these campuses have selected Alpha for results, not simply enrollment. Parents review weekly data on their child’s reading development and they hold strong opinions. You will field specific questions about individual student progress, and vague responses like “they’re doing fine” will not suffice. You must reference the running record, identify the phonemic deficit, and describe your corrective plan.

This level of accountability should energize you, not burden you.

Your initial months focus on establishing credibility. Workshops must be engaging, appropriately leveled, and demonstrably effective; student satisfaction and “love your Guide” survey scores (target 90%+) provide direct feedback. As you succeed, your influence grows beyond your own classroom: strategies that work for your students become templates for other Alpha campuses, and your diagnostic precision informs how reading instruction scales across Alpha.

The impact you create extends well beyond your immediate environment.

Before we extend an offer, you will submit a short video of yourself telling an engaging story for young children, and you will spend a full day on campus working directly with K‑2 students. Low energy with children will disqualify you, regardless of credential strength.

• Creating small‑group K‑2 reading workshops using real‑time adaptive‑app data, anchored in structured‑literacy approaches (Orton‑Gillingham, Wilson, LETRS, IMSE, or equivalent)
• Leading daily motivation sessions that achieve 100% weekly app goal completion across your students using Alpha’s motivational system (school currency, leaderboards, age‑appropriate gamification)
• Analyzing AI‑generated performance metrics (fluency curves, decoding accuracy, comprehension indicators) to modify instruction throughout the day, not only during planning periods
• Conducting running records, fluency probes, and decoding assessments to generate measurable progress visible in weekly campus data reviews
• Serving as the energetic, relatable adult your K‑2 students are excited to see every day

• Implementing a published reading curriculum, scripted lesson plan, or district‑mandated pacing guide; you create instruction from student performance data
• Delivering whole‑class lectures; all instruction occurs in targeted, small‑group settings while students complete academic subjects through adaptive applications
• Serving as a reading consultant, instructional coach, or district‑level specialist; you work directly with students in the classroom daily
• Managing a conventional…